Movsar Barayev

Movsar Barayev (26 October 1979-26 October 2002) was a leader of the Special Purpose Islamic Brigade (SPIR) during the Second Chechen War. He led the SPIR during the Moscow Theatre Hostage Crisis and was killed in battle.

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Movsar Barayev was born on 26 October 1979 in Argun in the Chechen-Ingush ASSR in the Soviet Union (present-day Russia) to a Sunni Muslim Chechen family. Barayev was the nephew of warlord Arbi Barayev and after Arbi's death in 2001, Movsar became the leader of the Special Purpose Islamic Brigade (SPIR) and was an enemy of Aslan Maskhadov. In 2002 he seized the Nord-Ost theater in Moscow and he was shot on his 23rd birthday in the theater, amid broken glass and with a bottle of cognac in hand.